ALLMedicine™ Cerebrovascular Events Center

Jul 30th, 2021 - Rupture of atherosclerotic plaque can cause acute malignant heart and cerebrovascular events, such as acute coronary heart disease, stroke and so on, which seriously threaten the safety of human life and property. Therefore, the early diagnosis an...

Jul 30th, 2021 - To elucidate the frequency and clinical impact of left atrial appendage thrombus (LAAT) in patients set for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). All patients undergoing TAVI between January 2014 and June 2020 with analysable multislice ...

Jul 29th, 2021 - Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Influenza infection is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events (myocardial infarction, stroke, and heart failure exacerbation) and mortality, a...

Jul 29th, 2021 - Background: Ischemic and hemorrhagic cerebrovascular accidents (ICVA and HCVA, respectively) remain common among patients with centrifugal-flow left ventricular assist devices (CF-LVADs), despite improvements in survival and device longevity. Ther...

Jul 20th, 2021 - The use of antiplatelet drugs is thought to increase the risk for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) in patients with cerebral microbleeds (CMBs). However, hemodialysis (HD) patients have a high prevalence of CMBs and diverse pathologies that require ...

Jul 13th, 2018 - Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a manifestation of atherosclerosis in the lower limbs. It can impair walking and, in severe cases, can lead to tissue loss, infection, and amputation. In addition to morbidity directly caused by PAD, patients wit...

Jun 25th, 2010 - Herein, we present the European Society for Vascular Surgery Guidelines pertinent to the secondary prevention of cerebrovascular events in patients with carotid artery stenosis including lipid lowering therapy, antiplatelet therapy and other risk ...

Jun 25th, 2010 - Herein, we present the European Society for Vascular Surgery Guidelines pertinent to the secondary prevention of cerebrovascular events in patients with carotid artery stenosis including lipid lowering therapy, antiplatelet therapy and other risk ...

Apr 6th, 2020 - This is an evaluation to determine the efficacy of the use of C-arm CBCT with SMART RECON novel software for the rapid assessment of time-resolved CTA and CT perfusion in the setting of ischemic cerebrovascular events. As a leading center for the ...

Jan 30th, 2020 - Increased pulse pressure and pulse-wave velocity are recognized indices of arterial stiffness (Laurent, Boutouyrie, Asmar et al., 2001; Qiu, Winblad, Viitanen et al., 2003). An increased pulse pressure (indicative of increased central aortic press...

Aug 13th, 2019 - Similar risk factors predispose patients to both cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events. Two hundred consecutive patients from Stroke Prevention Clinics (SPC) at London Health Sciences Centre and the Ottawa Hospital (100 patients from each site...

Oct 11th, 2018 - Introduction: Advances in modern medicine have led to people living longer and healthier lives. Frailty is an emerging concept in medicine yet to be explored as a risk factor in cardiac surgery. When it comes to CABG surgery, randomized controlled...

Sep 25th, 2018 - the relevance of OSAHS and carotid atherosclerosis Patients are distributed questionnaire and recruited from neurology clinic，vascular ultrasonography clinic of Xuanwu Hospital if they match the inclusion criteria. After initial screening, caroti...

Jun 17th, 2021 - Blood lipid control in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) continues to be "suboptimal," researchers on a new study conclude. The observational analysis showed that despite their increased risk for cardiovascular and limb events, lipid...

Jun 10th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Another study has suggested that rates of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) are much higher among patients with COVID-19 than among persons ...

May 28th, 2021 - Some nonsleepy patients with coronary artery disease and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may receive cardiovascular benefit from continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, according to a post hoc analysis of the RICCADSA clinical trial. Tha...

Feb 12th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cancer patients who sustain a heart attack were less likely than non-cancer patients to be treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in a retrospective study. The authors say PCI is "underutilized" in cancer...

Jan 11th, 2021 - Takeaway Controlled hypertension (systolic blood pressure [BP] <140 mmHg and diastolic BP <90 mmHg) was associated with an increased risk of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) vs normotension.